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Book Review The Indispensable Man Mark O. Hatfield Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. By Nelson Mandela. Little, Brown, 1994. 558 pp. On 10 May 1994, South Africa held celebrations to mark the inauguration of the first president it had ever chosen through nonracial elections.
— Washington Post Book World “ ‘Irresistible’ describes Long Walk to Freedom, which must be one of the few political autobiographies that’s also a page-turner.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review “A truly wonderful autobiography, sharp, literate, unpretentious, and . . . as emotionally involving as it is informative.” — Chicago ...
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Apr 8, 2009 · Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account of the unforgettable events since his release that produced at last a free, multiracial democracy in South Africa.
Jan 1, 2001 · Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co. The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison. Under the apartheid government, Mandela was regarded as a terrorist and jailed on the infamous Robben Island.
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Publisher: Macdonald Purnell (PTY) Ltd, Randburg, South Africa. The riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political leaders of our time - an international hero whose accomplishments won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. Since his release in February 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most significant moral leader since ...
Mar 11, 2008 · He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an ...
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. By Nelson Mandela. 537 pp., Boston: Little Brown and Company. $24.95. Review by Thomas de Monchaux. If we were asked to compare Nelson Mandela, the man whose journey from political prisoner under Apartheid to President of South Africa has symbolized and inspired the transformations of that country perhaps ...
